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Join me and my guests on Sunday from 8.30 am for this week's edition of Sunday Sequence.

WOMEN BISHOPS: The Church of England has given the green light to women bishops, but is it also giving a red light to the bishop of Rome? The broadcaster Christina Rees, a member of the Church of England General Synod who has long campaigned for women priests and bishops joins Catholic journalist Sitra Abbott to assess the ecumenical implications.

ORANGE BISHOP: One of the speakers at this year's Twelfth of July demonstrations will tell us what he plans to say - and it could leave some Orangemen seeing red. Bishop Henry Richmond will tell his Orange brethren that the preachers of the Protestant Reformation would be "amazed" at the extent to which some of their ideals have been realised in the present Roman Catholic Church.

COULD DO MORE: Abdul Bari Atawan, the editor of Al Quds, and Labour MP Shahid Malik disagree about whether Tony Blair was right to suggest that Britain's moderates Muslims are not doing enough to root out extremism.

GAY ADOPTION: Eileen Fegan, an academic lawyer at Queen's University, and Free Presbyterian Minister David McIlveen, debate the government’s decision to extend adoption rights to gay and unmarried couples in Northern Ireland.

LADS MAGS: Eilish Rooney, a lecturer in community development at the University of Ulster, and Richard Sullivan, deputy editor of Sunday World's northern edition, respond to a Labour MP’s proposal that Lads Mags like Zoo and Loaded should be banished to the top shelves of newsagents.

THE WRITING ON THE PRISON WALL: Malachi O’Doherty reports from an imaginative new programme in the education department at HMP Maghaberry, which offers creative writing courses to prisoners in the belief that writing can redeem the repeat-offender.

DESIGNER COMMUNION: Designer dresses, hair extensions, sunbeds, and chauffeur-driven limousines: Fiona Forde reports on the changing face of First communion in the Ireland of the Celtic Tiger.

THE LIFE OF GALILEO: Our London critic Judith Elliott has been to see David Hare's production of The Life of Galileo by Bertolt Brecht at the National Gallery.

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